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Post by Hagbard on Feb 4, 2024 4:12:45 GMT
I’m a university professor and I often incorporate course exercises where the class deliberately reads something slowly, often painfully slowly. It takes patience, but it’s a valuable literacy skill you can practice with comics. The whole Anglo-American sphere is obsessed with consuming, and even interpreting, “content” to the point that they forget _why_ we read— for enjoyment. Susan Sontag wrote about this problem, but I feel like Michael Warner’s “Uncritical Reading” is my favorite discussion of remembering why we read, and why it’s worth taking time to read slowly. Ironically, speeding through something is just a waste of time. www.ias.edu/sites/default/files/sss/Warner%20Michael-%20Uncritical%20Reading.pdf
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Post by jporcellino on Feb 4, 2024 23:38:51 GMT
View AttachmentI just don't get this opinion at all, I don't get people that are like 'i read it too quick!' i dunno, read it again or something? go slower this time? appreciate it? I hate to speak ill of Spurgeon, but this is one of many times where he comes of as arbitrary to me, real minor preferences obscuring a much bigger truth. If you're reading the first three issues of Underwater in 90 seconds, you're 100% reading it wrong, that should be self evident to anyone picking it up. Well, I'm guessing that was written in the let's-antagonize-the-shit-out-of-each-other 90's, where a sharp, dismissive quip was the currency of the day. I mean, I hope it was!
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Post by jporcellino on Feb 4, 2024 23:40:23 GMT
Speaking of In Search Of... if anyone has the Dark Horse Reid Fleming book for a reasonable price and in decent condition, drop me a line. I slept on that one and it disappeared in like a month. Thanks.
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Post by TomMurphy on Feb 5, 2024 10:26:01 GMT
I’m a university professor and I often incorporate course exercises where the class deliberately reads something slowly, often painfully slowly. It takes patience, but it’s a valuable literacy skill you can practice with comics. The whole Anglo-American sphere is obsessed with consuming, and even interpreting, “content” to the point that they forget _why_ we read— for enjoyment. Susan Sontag wrote about this problem, but I feel like Michael Warner’s “Uncritical Reading” is my favorite discussion of remembering why we read, and why it’s worth taking time to read slowly. Ironically, speeding through something is just a waste of time. www.ias.edu/sites/default/files/sss/Warner%20Michael-%20Uncritical%20Reading.pdfThis is very interesting - thanks. I'm a subeditor in the day job, and I often/usually find myself reading in the same mode when it's something I actually want to absorb, 'feel' the voice, turn around in my brain to look at from different angles etc.
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